A trap full of fish

On Sunday, I went to Altona pier. I had prepared a fish trap with prawns and a slice of squid in it.

I was going to lower it under the pier, where I could see mussels and some cold water coral. I dropped the trap down and watched it sink.

After 1 hour, I came back to check the trap. I started to pull in the trap and in it were 15 small fish.

One of these fish is a gobie because it was breathing air; some were sculpin because of the small spines on their fins. Many of the others, I don't know their names. After taking pictures, I released them all back under the pier.

 I also found a soldier crab on the beach.

Finn's mulloway

Mulloway are one of the hardest fish to catch.

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I went to Werribee river pier to try to catch this fish.

When I wasn't looking, a Mulloway took the yellow tail bait on my stronger rod. When I turned around, my rod had been pulled into the estuary. Luckily I had brought two rods, so I started fishing with my lighter rod.

I switched to using lures to catch the Mulloway.

Bream were biting my lure but they wouldn't hook up. I tried two different lures - one hard plastic and one metal lure.

 I went home empty handed - the Mulloway were just too hard to catch here, but I had a nice time and will be back. 👦🎣